om — a —————
Deusorai atc
BY FP. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—And we cau’t beat Tyrone, even with
a olub.
—The nights are growing longer. How
pice for the bridge fiends.
—The mortality under chlornform is one
in ten thousand, but few people care to
take a chance even against such good odds.
—A firm of Kentucky counterfeiters bad
an office on Wall street. They probably
thought that “birds of a feather flock to-
gether.”
—— Bellefonte is not out of basehall en-
tirely and the people of the town will yet
have sn opportunity of seeing one or Iwo
good games bere.
—How in the world does the law ex-
peot to keep booze out of dry States when
it oan’s keep it out of such places as the
western penitentiary.
—Holding up railroad trains in Central
Pennsylvania looks like the effete East hae
determined to show that the West ban’
so much on it after all.
—Now 18 the sime when the church fes-
tival bill changes from ‘ice cream and oth-
er delicacies of the season’'’ to ‘‘oysters
gerved in every style.”
—At last the QUAY monument has been
ordered on to Harrisburg. As a sentinel
mute before the palace of graft we can
conoeive of nothing more fitting.
~The pleasant things the Lock Haven
papers are saying to Renovo just now are
only exceeded by the pleasant things the
Renovo papers say to Lock Haven.
—A professor at Corneil says insect pests
cost the larmers of the country seven han-
deed million dollars a year. We didn’t
know zoologists were so bigh priced.
—That Pittsburg religious society that
proclaims the milleoniam to be only five
years off is considerate. at least, in so far
as it gives everyone ample time in which
to get ready.
—TUnited States Senator OLIVER is to be
ope of the political attractions at the
Granger's picnic. The machine is evident.
ly casting an anchor to the windward of
the farmer vote on the coming campaign.
—JonN GOLIGRTLY bas resigned as col-
leotor of costs for the Luzerne county court.
He coaldn’s collect enough to pay his own
salary. If there is anything in a vame it
was wrong to give JOHN such a beavy job.
—The real sport nowadays seems to be
the fellow who works a pass into the base-
ball game, bets a quarter on the home
team, and, it it loses, pats io the ress of
the week ‘‘orabbin’’ at the mavagement
and the players.
VOL. 54
at Schoemviile.
Atrocities
The investigation of the obarge of peon-
age at the Pressed Steel oar company,
Sohoenville, pear Pistaburg, appears to he
developing some sorprises. The hearings
are being held io the Federal building,
Pittebarg, and on the first day, Saturday
last, the proceedings were public. As the
close of thas session, however, is was an-
pounced that no farther public hearings
would be had and since then it bas been a
Star-cbamber affair. The United States
Distrios Attorney has been in attendance
at all the sessions and the promise bas been
given that the evidence *‘will later on be
silted,” and that all the facts will be laid
belore the grand jury. Itie expected that
this promise will serve until alter the elec:
tion. After that the people ‘‘oan go bang.”
Some of the testimony adduced during
the only public hearing was actually start-
ling. The first witness declared that he
didn’t know that he was hired as a strike
breaker and when, upon arrival at the
plant, the fact was disclosed to bim he
‘wanted to leave the plant.” When be
got to the gate, he adds, he ‘was held
back by the goards’’ and when he asked
for his money, to quote him literally, ‘a
goard rao up and struck me over the head
with a blackjack. I was unconscious for
ten minutes,” he declared. Another wit-
pess testified that had seen the assault
thos described and when be asked for belp
for the viotim of the crime he was told
“it be interfered he would get his head
kuocked off ' He added thas ‘‘he had seen
| men beaten wost brutally when they were
| hangry and asked for a piece of bread.”
FRANK CLANCY testified tbat he bad
been hired in Chicago as a boss bricklayer
and bad heen told shat the job was in
Indiana. When he got inside the stockade
be found others who bad been similarly
deceived aud wanted to get away. “That
pight,”’ continued Mr. CraNcy, “Sam
COHEN came to me and eaid I'd get $100
extra if I'd ges the men to stay. I sold
bim I woaldn’s. Then he pulled a gun aud
shoved it against my stomach.” ARTHUR
HENNING also testified that he bad Jbeen
assaulted by one of the guards with a
blackjack and GUSTAV VOGEL swore that
on an occasion “300 of the strike breakers
—Boats of the French navy are at target
practice now and eo ekilifal bave their gan-
pers become that they oan hit each other.
Ob Tuesday the Gloire pumped six shells
into her sister ship Marseillaise before it
was discovered that their aim was so bad-
—The thought of one man holding up a
Pennsylvania R. R. passenger train in the
hears of Pennsylvania seems so much like
a joke thas few people will give tbe high.
wayman the full measure of credit for the
nerve that pulled the job off eo succesefal-
ly.
_—There were thirteen bandred flights
made by air ships assembled for the inter-
national contest at Reims, France, and
not a single person was killed. Give the
“joy wagons'’ thirteen hundred chances
like that and the undertakers would have
to do some overtime working.
—English upper circles are circulating
the story that the Dake of MARLBOROUGH
is rather anxious to resume friendly rela.
tions with his wife, who will be remember-
ed as Miss CONSUELA VANDERBILT. Prob-
ably it is not so much the lady herself that
the Englishman wants as her pocket-book.
—From the 12th to the 16th will be Old
Home Week in Philipsburg and already
we oan see the countless good old scouts
who will be back to talk it all over with
those who have spent all of their days in
the burg. It ought to be a great event for
Philipsburg and we know no effort of the
people there will be lacking in making it
80.
—The ballot you will vote in the tall
will be 42x24 inches in size, without the
addition of the county ticket which will
probably make it a few inches lounger. It
is all occasioned by the coustitutional
smendments that bave to bs voted on.
Here is a blanket ballot, for sare, One
that will be large enough to cover yom
should you fall asleep in the booth while
studying it out.
—JoHN PARKER, the Pittsburger who
courted one of win sisters eloped with bis
love only to find out after they were mar-
ried that it was not his love at all, but her
sister. We presume JOHN will be happy
enough because it MARY looked good to
him CrciLIA must look equally good, since
they looked so much alike that their moth-
er was never certain of which was which
without looking at their teeth.
—Well. De. Cook has done what no
man accomplished before him. He has dis-
covered the North pole, and planted the
American flag there. It ie a great triumph
for science, but inasmuch as the hoped for
open sea is not there i ie a question wheth-
er the seven hundred and Gfty-four lives
thas are known to have been sacrificed in
North pole expeditions are paid for in the
discovery that it is nothing bat everlasting
foe.
attempted to leave the plaotiv a body,
bat when they got to the gate they were
stopped by armed guards.” Among these
guards, this witness testified, were troop:
ers,’ meaning the state constabulary.
Another witness testified thas wheo he
wanted to quit he was told §by COHEN
that he'd call the ‘‘sroopers’’ to shoot bim
down.”
To the shame of Pennsylvania it mast be
said that we are obliged to go out of the
State lor the evidence of these atrooities.
We have newspapers in Pennsylvania
which pretend to be Democratic and as.
sume to be fair, and some gave a portion of
the testimony in their news coluamos. But
all that whioh referred to the perversion of
power by the state constabulary was care.
fully ont out. We quote from the New
York World of Sunday which appears to be
beyond the reach of the corrupting agents
of the iniguitous trasts and tariff-pampered
corporations. The Philadelphia papers are
not thos independent and if Pennsylvania
Democrats must look to New Yorki{for the
real news it might be a good idea to look
to that source for all information.
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Etther Stupid or Culpable.
The Pennsylvania railroad paid its tax
on gross receipts into the State Treasury,
the other day, the amount being $173,000
in round figures. A few days previously
the same company paid $1,000,000 into
the treasury, being the amount of its tax
on capital stock. Otber corporations bave
been paying their taxes freely aud the
total volume of receipts during the past
couple of months bas been exceptionally
large. The balance in the geveral fond at
the close of business for July was pearly
$8,000,000, though most of the school ap-
propriations bad been paid. The indica,
tions are that the balance at the close of
August, the facts are not accessible at this
writing, will be as great as a month ago.
These figures plainly show the absurdity
of the action of the Governor in outting
down appropriations, contrary to law, alter
the close of the session of tbe Legislature.
There were appropriation bills passed dor-
ing the session which ought to have been
vetoed, items in the general appropriation
bill which ought to hove been out ont and
the constitution provided a way to acoom-
plish that result. Bat the present balance
in the treasury and the liberality of cur-
rent payments of taxes clearly prove that
all the appropriations made for just and
worthy purposes might have been paid in
full without impairiug the oredit of the
Commonwealth or, which is worse, violat
ing the constitution of the State.
While Governor STUART was deliberat-
ing on the question of cutting down appro-
priations in violation of the constitution,
the WATCHMAN admovished bim against
such a misteasance in office. We pointed
ont that the revenues avd balance on hand
BELLEFONTE, PA.
woald be ample to pay all ——
that ‘‘it was none of his business’’ and that |
STATE RIGHTS AN
tbat ought to be paid, and that the greatest
of all dangers toa State comes from ope
lawfal purposes. A pumber of esteemed
contemporaries joined in this wholesome
admonition but the Governor paid no at-
tention. He proceeded to violate She con-
stitation which he bad sworn to ‘‘support,
obey and defend,” avd unless he is very
stupid that action was exceedingly cal-
pable.
Democratic and Republican Recreants.
The exuberance of youth and the enthu-
siasm of inexperience, taken together, may
serve to excuse the editor of the Republican
for his recent faux pas in discussing the re-
lationship of Judge MOSCHZISKER to the
preposterous decision affirming the validi-
ty of the act of assembly, whioh increased
the salaries of judges in commission. “If,
as the WATCHMAN so indignantly avers,”
declares our contemporary. ‘‘thie con-
struction of the act was a ‘perversion of
power,’ it should have carried its indigoa-
tion a little farther and sold the whole sto-
ry. Is should bave explained that none
other than SAMUEL GusTINE THOMPSON,
of Philadelphia, tbat well known and dis.
tinguished Demoorat, while on the Sau-
preme court bench, wrote sod banded
down the opinion affirming the decision of
Judge Vox MOSCHZISKER."
If our esteemed youug contemporary bad
studied the columne of the WATCHMAN a8
prayerfully as he appears to have read a
single article bypocritically, be would bave
learned monthe ago that the WATCHMAN
Aid “frankly say s0,”’ aud that it condemn: i
ed Justice THOMPSON quite as vehemeotly
it cepsnred Judge VON MOSCHZISKER.
Not only that bus we pointed out the sigoifi-
cant fact that while Justice THOMPSON was
universally reprohated by his party at the
time and bas ever since heen held as a pol-
itical recreant, Judge VON MOSCHZISKER
has been generously rewarded by the me-
chine which manages his party, the latest
favor bestowed being the nomination for
an office upon which, in the event of his
election, his reputation would cast re-
proach. Justice THOMPSON has been prop:
erly consigned by bis party to oblivion.
Judge VON MOSCHZISKER bas been osten-
iatiously honored by bis political associ.
ates.
Since this subject has heen again brought
within the focos of the limelight it may
be appropriate to add that the judiciary of
the State was ‘‘electioneered’’ for weeke
before two Jadges could be found to ren-
der a decision so obvionsly absurd. The
language of the constitution is so palpable,
the intent of the lramers of the instrament
was 80 olearly expressed in the debates of
the convention and the principles of jus
tice and equity are so plainly revealed in
previous decisions relating to other offices,
that po man endowed with reasoning pow-
er could fail to noderstand that such a de-
cision would bribg obloguy and contempt
trom all fair-minded men. Bat the prom-
ise of preferment inflaenved one and other
considerations probably the others concern.
ed in the iniquity.
Fowler and Cannon.
Itisa great pity that Representative
FowLER,0f New Jersey, delayed his denun-
ciation of Speaker CANNON nutil after the
onmmittees for the present Congress had
been aopounced. For several years Mr.
FOWLER bas been chairman of the House
Committee on Banking and Currency and
bas given much thought to the subjeots
which are considered by that committee.
Daring the closing period of the last Con-
gress, however, he joined ic a movement
organized by other distinguished gentle:
men of the House to curtail the power of
the Speaker aud at the opening of the
special session of the presens Cougress au-
pounced himsell as a candidate for Speaker
in opposition to CANNON.
For these reasons Speaker CANNON ap-
poiuted another to the chairmanship of the
Committee on Baokiog and Currevoy.
There may bave been other reasons and it
bas beeu freely charged that the gentleman
chosen by the Speaker for the office. Mr.
VREELAND, of New York, is ove of the
agents of the Standard Oil company on the
floor of she House, just as Senator AL-
DRICH, chairman of the Finance Commis-
tee of the Senate, is agevt for that trust in
that body. Bat Mr. FOWLER prelers to
attribute his humiliation to the reasous
first enumerated, and proceeds to adminis
ter a castigation which is the more severe
because it is entirely just and deserved.
He pictures CANNON as a coarse, arrogant
and insolent boss.
Everybody who has even casually ob-
served the methods of CANNON recognizes
the accuracy of FOWLER'S estimate, but
just as might have been expected, CANNON
sets it aside with the statement that it is
the raving of a disappointed man and all
the underlings of the congressional wa-
and there never was a more servile
organization, echo bis reply. Thoughbtfal
people will not be deceived, of course, but
thoughtful e are in the minority and
it is to be feared that the good effect of
what ie really cou pablic service
will be lost because of the Speaker’s oppor-
tunity to thus Llow it away. FOWLER
may return to the attack, however, aad it
he does be will have public sympathy with
m.
Spry
D FEDERA
L UNION.
Pushing the Quay Monument.
bave rarely bad inclination and
never belore opportunity to coincide with
the opinion of DAVE LANE on any ques
tion of public interest. Mr. LANE is the
antithesis ef everything that makes for po-
| litical morality or sivic righteousness. In
admonishing municipal officeholders, a fzw
years ago, that unless each of them polled
five votes at the epsuing election, they
would all lose sheir jobs, be expressed his
real notion of official obligations. Follow-
ing his suggestion involved the stuffing of
ballot boxes, of course, but that made no
difference to him or his party. In fact is
may be said that because of the laxity of
his political morals he is honored by his
party ae ite guide and that the chairman
ship of the Republican city committee bas
been literally forced upon him, on account
of his fitness, thus revealed, for the pecul.
iar duties of that office.
Bat in bis determination to compel the
State Board of Public Grounds and Build-
ings to carry out the conspiracy of the oc-
odpants of the Boas mansion, Harrisburg,
during the legislative session of 1905, and
the then occupant of the executive man:
sion, to erect an effigy of the late Senator
MATTHEW STANLEY QUAY in or adjacent
to the ‘‘palace of grals,”’ in that city, we
are constrained to believe he is righs. It
is true that so long as the present political
machine controls she public life of the Com-
monwealth no monument in marble or effi-
gy io bronze is needed to keep his memory
fresh. The acts of she Legislature and the
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proceedings of the conventions of his party
are better monuments of QUAY than any
| artist of ancient or modern times conld
form in bronze or put upon canvas. The
pomination of Siate Senator SISSON and
former State Sepator STOBER, for example,
for offices which will entitle them to seats
on the Board of Public Grounds and Build-
ings, was a higher tribate to the memory
of QUAY than she construction ol a bun-
dred monuments in marble.
It is eminently fis, moreover, that Mr.
LANE should lead in the agitation to be
stow a dubious honor on the memory of
Quay. Mr. LANE ought to be active in
the movement to canonize the iniquities of
a period which was kiud to him. He bas
grown very rich, potwithstandiog a pro-
longed life of expensive luxaries, ons of
what might be termed the osufroct of
Quayism, and it is natural that he would
like to see the system coudoned through a
mouument to QUAY. If Quay bad been
caught belore the statute of limitations
could he made available for purposes of im-
munity, there would be no advocates of a
monument for him now. Bat he was able
to postpone the prosecution for his oconsti-
tational misdemeanors until the limitation
bad run against punishment and conse
quently bas, as he deserves to bave, the ad-
miration of DAVE LANE and bis kind.
Mr. Bringhurst's Easy Comsclence.
City Treasurer BRINGHURST, of Phila
delphia, might as well bave allowed his
conscience to continue the peaceful sleep
in which is had been indulging for several
gears. He accomplished nothing by the
brief awakening expressed in his recent
letter to chairman LANE. He told Mr.
LANE a few startling truths, noquestion-
ably, and it he bad the courage to pursue
the subject to its logical conclusion, be
might bave aroused other consciences and
achieved much good. Bat he was unequal
to the emergency. He lacks the moral
fibre whiob produces results and upon the
first sigo of resistance be quietly dropped
back into bis former state of moral torpid-
ity. He is obviously a tour-flusher.
Mr. BRINGHURST in on open letter to
chairman LANE, the other day, protested
against the policy of the political machine
of Philadelphia, in refusing to open ballot
boxes of voting districts in which is is al-
leged fraudulent votes were cast or false
returns made, at the recent primaries, in
the interest of the Republican machine
candidate for District Attorney. The re-
fusal, Mr. BRINGHURST alleged, cast a
shadow upon the integrity of the candi-
date’s title to the nomination, and is rep-
rebensible in various ways. To this ac-
cnsation Mr. LANE repiied that there were
no frands perpetrated eitber in the votes
or the returns in question, for he bad in.
terrogated the ward leaders on the enbjeot,
and they bad all given him assurance that
the vote was honest and the returns acocun-
| rate.
| Thereupon Mr. BRINGHURST obligingly
withdrew his acousation, practically, and
proceeded to eulogize not only the Repub-
lican candidate for District Attorney but
the members of the Republican machine,
in a subsequent letter, thus converting
his accusation into an argument in behalf
of the ticket which be bad previously as-
persed. Mr. LANE could hardly bave ask-
ed for a more effective campaign docament,
for, whereas, the obarge conveyed the im-
pression of an outraged conscience, the
apology was a oonfession of a Sapidiey
which did injustice to the b
mind
gentlemen who compose the bhlican
machine. Honest men have mote to fear
from that sort of reformers than from pro-
fessional ballot box stuffers.
BER 3, 1909.
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| The stupendous Fraud of 1909 and
| the Need of New and Honest Leaders.
From the Netraska State Capital, Republican.
The new Aldrich tariff bill is one of the
greatest frands ever perpetrated ou the
American people.
Jt is in no way what she Republican
party promised iu the last campaign. [tis
a raise in tariff rates ahove those of the
Divgley tanfl of more thav 3 per oent. Yet
a swarm of congressmen and senators, part
of them orooks aud part of them block:
heads, voted for the bill, avd sent word
bome to their coustituents that it was a
‘nearly perfect bill’ and “‘a great im-
provement.”
The ready-made clothing of meu avd
boys gets a raise of $125,000,000 a year.
That is about $4 apiece extra. That is one
“jmprovement.’’
The cotton and woolen cloths, and the
ready-made clothing bought by women, all
ges raised in price. That is another '‘iw-
provement.”
"There were over 4,000 items in tbe tariff
bill. President Tals asked for changes in
eight of them. He gained his point in five
and sigued this “almost perfeot’’ bill.
On the face of the bill the increase in
revenue is $4,188,480, But there are im-
portant reductions along the line. If any
of Jou common people in Nebraska want
to buy steel rails, or arsenic, or iron ore,
or some rawhides for chemical and me-
chanical purposes, you come in for the
benefit of the lower tariff. If you are build-
ing and want some flooring rough on both
sides, or some ceiling unplaned and with
out grooves, you can get some of the ‘‘ben-
efits.”
But when you go to your stores and buy
the common necessities of life yon will
have the pleasare of paying higher
all along the line. In this the m ts
are helpless. They have already received
notice from the jobbers and manuvfactarers
of the higher prices.
The average redaction in the sugar sched-
ules is one-fiftieth of 1 per cent. Remew-
ber that when you buy your sugar avd pay
-
spawis from the Keystone.
—Notwitbstanding the fact that several
things have happened which threatened to
destroy it, the peach crop this year in the
vicinity of Everett, promises to be a record
breaker.
— As the steel! business is now flourishing
so are the brick manufacturers and Mt. Union
is feeling the prosperous wave. The two
plants average twenty cars of fire brick a day
or shout 126 car loads per week.
—Lewistown property owners are suffering
from the depredations of fruit thieves, who
help themselves to the ripening apples, pears
aud plums. The outraged property owners
threaten to shoot if they catch the lawless
| invaders.
~The Huntingdon pin mill is very pros
percus st the present time, and orders are
still coming in. Fifteen men are now em-
ployed, aud au nverage of 63.000 wooden pins
a week is the output of the factory. L. M.
Rbodes is in charge
~The plant of the Palmer Window Glass
company, which failed at Shingle House for
$325,000, was oid at trustees’ sale for $70,-
000, to first wortgage creditors. The validity
of the bounds will be tested in court. The
plant will be operated.
—Among the floats in Huntingdon's floral
day of Old Home Week will be a locomotive
made of flowers, entered by the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers. A wooden ship
with flowers growing in it will be the offer-
ing of the veformatory.
—Thomas Armstrong, of Philipsburg, has
been elected superintendent of the C. and C.
Steel Railway company and the Philipsburg
Electric Light company. He assumed his
office on September 1st and will succeed
Harry Beck, who has resigned.
—~Mis. W. A. Stone, wife of a prominent
citizen at Uniontown, who mysteriously dis-
appeared from ber home on December 20d
and eluded all attempts of detectives to locate
her, has returned to her husband's home.
They will not tell where the woman was.
—1It 1s believed that there are 1,500 feet of
oil standing in the abandoued No. 3 well of
the Union Oil snd Gas company, at East
Waterford, Juniata county. The company
will make an investigation and if there 1s oil
in any quantity to be found drilling will be
recommenced.
—80 many stories have come to the divi-
sion of economic zoology of the state depart
ment of agriculture of the finding of speci.
wens of & so called horn tailed snakes, that
Professor H. A. Surface, head of the division,
has offered a reward of $50 for one. He says
there is no such reptile.
whatever price the trust dictates.
It you want the official figores, showing
the exact rate on every item of the new
tariff, and is comparison with the Diogley
tax, ask your congressman to get for youn
Senate Documents 155 aud 156. Don’t
take the word of any oheap politician, or
any hungry office-bunter, or any sneakiog
whiffet of an Omaha editor, but get the
official figures, and get them guick.
Then, while you are digging down into
into your pookets for the increased price of
the things you must pay, remember tbat
a state convention inasruoted the Nebraska
delegation to vote for whatever tariff was
put up to them by a president who bad
given iv buta casual examiustion Re.
member that a gang of blockheads in that
convention thought more of catching trains
for home than they did of the wellare of
the people of Nebraska whom they pre
tended to represent.
What the Republicans of Nebraska need
is honest, able and cou leadership.
What we need is a solid delegation in
Washington Pledged to wipe ont Cannoa-
ism and Aldrichism and pledged to restore
actual representative government to the
people.
There are good and able men in Nebras-
ka—as good and as able as in any other
state in the union. Les them be called
forth to serve. Let us bave open war now
against the interests that are combined to
ohoke the life out of the country.
Give ue some real men.
Home of Free Trade,
Manchester Cor. Philadelphia Record.
And now I am in the very hears of this
“decadent” industrial isle. It throbs avd
sends she life-blood to all the capillaries of
trade throughout the empire. Manohester
is the centre of the moat denseiy-populated
and the most active district in :
You thought London was ; but London
jsn’t a circumstanse, cooeidering the area.
Moreover, Manchester is the biggest mauu-
facturing centre iu the world.
I thoughs I bad in my time seen some
cotton mills—along the Piedmont slopes of
the Carolinas and lining the streams of
New England. I thought there were some
smoking factory chimueys in Pennsylvania
and ’round about New Jersey, and thas
the laundryman bad a cinch in Pittsburg.
But I was mistaken as to their numbers.
Like the fellow in the old frog yarn, who
Promised several carloads of frogs, I was
eceived by the noise they made—that is,
speaking comparatively.
Yesterday I cyoled ap a hill oo the out-
skirts of this smoking city from which, but
for the very density of them, I might bave
counted five hundred tall, towering
“‘policeman’s hille’’ chimneys of cotton
mills alone, to say nothiog of the nomer-
ous ones of other sorts of factories.
mind you, was in one vicinity alone. Re-
marking to the American vice consul, Mr.
Thomas, who at present is in charge of the
consulate, that I wanted to visit the cotton
mill district, be smiled.
“You can go out ov any road for 10
miles and see unbroken lines of cotton
mills in every direction,” he said.
The 50 miles at Oldham form only one
of the groups on one of the roads. Aod
roads mean paved city streets. Going to
these numerous towns, or ‘corporations,’
as they are called, from the center of Man:
chester. there is no break in the continuity
of the houses in the solid blocks of brick ;
the road is continuously paved with Bel-
gian blocks, and sumerous factory chim-
peys tower from behind the shops and
dwellings al the way.
Did It Ever Happen to Yom?
From the Pittsburg Post.
Did you ever have the business end of
an ugly goo poked at you suddenly and
altogether unexpectedly by an entire and
not at all ng stranger who was
ina hurry to annex a lot of money that
didn’t belong to him and who wanted your
help or at least your entire compliance and
noun-resistance and did you succeed in baf-
fling the fell intent ? If not you are not at
all qualified . to bow much better ac-
count you would have given of Jouredt
than those trainmen viotims of lone
robber of Lewistown did Tuesday morning.
—Mrs. J. C. Blair bas added another $10,~
000 to the gift for the J. C. Blair Memorial
hospital now being planned for Huntingdon.
This makes a total of $120,000 in the hands
of the commission. Work is now being push-
ed on the excavations and in September the
present force will be doubled.
~Walter Cardon, who was injured by the
elevator in the Hotel Dimeling, at Clear~
field, in February, is suing the Clearfield
Hotel company for $10,000. The Fidelity
and Casualty company, of New York, is the
real defendant aud will be obliged to pay
any damages that the plaintiff may be
awarded, i
—The mining region centering around
Patton is booming. All the mines of the
Poopsylvania Coal and Coke company are
working, some to their full capacity, and
new men are seen in all the slopes. Forty-
seven were given employment in one day at
Hastings aud orders are coming in as pleuti =
fully as can be expected.
—~Samuel Kerr, the young Pittsburg boy
who invented a wireless telegraph with
which be hopes to surpass Marconi, was
honored by a visit by Jack Binus, the wire-
less telegraph operator whose heroism on the
fated ship, the Republic, stirred up the land.
The two will condact experiments with the
machinery the boy has built.
—The Haws Coal company at Holsopple
will double its output in the next few
months. It now employs ninety men and
sends out 500 tons a day. Double the num-
ber of men will be hired and the output will
be made 900 tous. The Lin Coal company a¢
Nanty-Glo will also increase its operations.
It bas secured options on 100 acres of adjoim-
ing territory and will endeavor to get the
mining right to 700 acres.
—Eight year-old Olive Clark of Maddens-
ville. Huntingdon county, had her little
baby sister out in a baby carriage and not
having a very good hold on tbe handle of
the carriage, it slipped from ber grasp and
went down over a fifteen foot embankment.
There was a creek at the bottom of this, but
although the carriage went on into the
stream the baby was luckily thrown out and
was found on the bank, only slightly bruised
as the result.
~The County National bank of Clearfield,
bas brought suit in the Cambris county
courts against the Barnesboro Water coms
pany to recover $4,000 with interest from
August 1st, 1909. Ii is alleged that on June
1st, the defendant drew to order of J. LE
Spangler and H. F. Bigler, of Bellefonte, and
This, | James A. McOiain, of Spangler, promissory
note of $4,000 payable August 1st. The gen-
tlemen it is claimed endorsed the note, which
when payment fell due was protested.
—The fifteenth sunusl convention of the
Pennsylvania Bankers’ association will be
held at Bedford Springs on Tuesday and
Wednesday, September 7th and Sth. The
program includes a number of addresses by
prominent financiers of the state and else-
where, and at the banquet the principal ad*
dresses will be Dr. Edwin Erle Sparks, presi-
dent Pennsyivania State College; Hon. Henry
Houck, secretary of internal affairs of Penn~
sylvania, and Thomas B. Holmes, editor of
the Trenton, N. J. Gazette. .
—Ac~ording to reports issued today, the
Relief funds of the Pennsylvania system
bave in twenty-three years paid outa total
of $26,702, 947.73 in benefits to employes of
the railroad. Of this amount, £15 896,425.59
were paid to members who were unable«te
work, while the remainder, $10,806,522.19,-
was paid to the families of employes who
died. Reports for July show payments
amounting to $05,202.70 on the lines east of
Pittsburg and Erie. To members incapacic
tated for work, $50,787.10 were paid, while
to the families of members who died there
was paid the sum of $38,496.60. The total
amount paid out of the Relief fund of fhe
lines east of Pittsburg since it was
| od tn 1856 is $19,477,986 52.